Monday, January 21, 2008

The Meaning of Adinkra Symbols

This site of Adinkra symbols from Western Africa is really quite amazing. The meaning of each symbol is given on the site. The symbol shown above is the symbol of greatness, charisma and leadership. All of these symbols look very much like embellished phosphene symbols. I think these symbols may represent an intermediary step between abstract geometric representation and symbolic language.

http://www.welltempered.net/adinkra/htmls/adinkra/adin.htm